U+030C "̌" Combining Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+030C "̌" Combining Caron is a diacritical mark designed for placement over or under other characters to modify their pronunciation, most commonly indicating a rising or falling-rising tone in phonetic alphabets like the International Phonetic Alphabet or serving as a háček in Central and Eastern European languages such as Czech and Slovak, where it is used on letters like č, š, and ž to denote a specific sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+030C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Hacek |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ̌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ̌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCC 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x030C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000030C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u030c |